Academic disciplines that study the aspects of human society and culture
In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at the time.
the humanities are more frequently contrasted with natural, and sometimes social sciences, as well as professional training.
The humanities use methods that are primarily critical, or speculative, and have a significant historical element as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences, yet, unlike the sciences, it has no central discipline.
humanities include the study of ancient and modern languages, literature, philosophy, history, archeology, anthropology, human geography, law, politics, religion and art.